I don’t see a link to your multisite or the subdomain site you created but I’m wondering if you created a wildcard subdomain in DNS and will SiteGround’s control panel (if they offer one) allows subdomains or will even work with wildcards.
So that’s about all I can tell you.
I have no idea why the new sites don’t show up in ‘MySites’ either but I don’t use ‘MySites’ list very much as my multisites overwhelm that dropdown list.
JNashHawkins Thanks for your response.
Siteground have an option to install multisite from original setup but it only installs as subdirectories.
I have changed the code in wp-config.php from:
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false ); to
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true );
The complete config addition is:
define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true );
define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘wantlocal.com.au’ );
define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
I have not changed any other code.
There is an option for wildcard subdomains and this is enabled.
I am continually getting “server IP address could not be found” errors when trying to log in by browser and also trying to link from the network admin area.
the main website URL is wantlocal.com.au
The sub site is template.wantlocal.com.au
Cheers
Both of those sites seem to be working from what I can see.
If I add /admin/ to either site’s ‘domain name’ I get a login modal…
My only question would be is the ‘template’ subdomain actually on the multisite and did the installer install into a subdirectory and, if so, then how did you deal with that? But since it seems to be working I’d say you are fine.
As to navigating to the subsites, you should be able to do that via the network dashboard by going to ‘sites’ since they don’t show in the ‘mysites’ dropdown.
Changing SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL to true is okay if it works as it’s a new install otherwise you shouldn’t ever change that on an older install as it might collide with a few subdirectories that WordPress creates during site creation and the domain mapping process.
If you still can’t see the sites then reload the pages or clear your browser cache.
If you can’t get into the ‘templates’ site to admin anyother way then just type the FQDN into the browser bar and add /admin/ to the end of that.
